- faithful official
- 干 gān: 干 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder干 Gān: 干 Gan1: surname Gan干 gān: 干 gan1: (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shield干 gàn: 干 gan4: tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- good faith; devotion; loyalty; dedication
- tyrannical; brutal (regime)
- 商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)
- female personal name (archaic)
- to cut open; to analyze; Taiwan pr. [pou3]
- darling; (in negative sentences) heart; humanity
- indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)
- to have; to possess
- (idiom) to be a flourishing family with many descendants
- gifted scholar
- see 達官貴人|达官贵人[da2 guan1 gui4 ren2]
- in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- to come down in the world (idiom); to suffer a reversal of fortune
- to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
- plain cotton clothing; (literary) the common people
- even; so much so that
- to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine); abscission; abjunction (botany)
- scholar; intellectual
- locus; orbit; trajectory; track
- salt; CL:粒[li4]
- building; shop; term for certain service establishments; embassy or consulate; schoolroom (old); CL:家[jia1]
- to plan; to seek; scheme
- what one acquires; one's gains
- scanty; meager
- income does not cover expenditure; unable to make ends meet
- have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- rich family; large landlord
- 人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
- 长 zhǎng: 长 zhang3: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance长 cháng: 长 chang2: long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
- 民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min
- of humble origin
- dad
- 别 bié: 别 bie2: to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish; (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc); (bound form) other; another; different; don't ...!; to fasten with a pin or clip; to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement); (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2])别 Bié: 别 Bie2: surname Bie别 biè: 别 bie4: to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
- 教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao
- 读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause
- to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 千 qiān: 千 qian1: thousand千 qiān: 千 qian1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- copper coin of the Ming and Qing Dynasties